Lying as a StrategyLying, as a political strategy, is entrenched in our political system. We need to stop it and confront leaders who lie. One solution is to add the legal requirement to – speak the truth – to their oath of office, with repercussions when it is broken.Money Corrupts Politics Over $3 billion is spent yearly on lobbying, over $55 billion since 1998. This corrupts politics. $6 billion is spent during our general elections. If you are not sure that this is too much, imagine a pile of $1 bills over 400 miles high, twice as high as the International Space Station. We spend 120 times more than is spent in England’s general elections. We could learn from them, and what one country can do, another can do. It must be our priority to take at least 95 percent of political spending out of politics.Lack of Integrity We must no longer tolerant politicians who lack integrity. We must speak out each time they lie or support special interests above the interests of the people. We can’t expect good government to flow from electing politicians who lack integrity. False Ideology Replaces FactWe must run our government on the best factual information, rather than using political or ideological information. We must base our country’s governance on facts, not unproven or false ideology or ideology catering to special interests.Gerrymandering & Voter SuppressionGerrymandering has been used since the 1780s for politicians to select which citizens can vote for them, by setting voting district boundaries. The citizens should be the only ones selecting who will represent them. Some states are now setting district boundaries using non-political committees. Voter Suppression is still going on. We have politicians in our Republic who think it is proper for them to control who can vote, by culling voter lists, requiring street addresses from people who don’t have them, moving or reducing polling places, and more.Reform Congressional RulesCongressional Rules need to be reformed to promote greater cooperation in Congress, and more democratic functioning. When the Senate eliminated the 60 vote rule to confirm Supreme Court Justices, the selection process became completely partisan. This is not beneficial for American Justice. The Problem Solvers Caucus, a bi-partisan group of U.S. House members, is working for bi-partisan solutions.Lack of Term Limits46 states have Term limits for State Supreme Court judges, from 6 to 14 years. 15 states have Term Limits for elected officials. In 1947 Congress pushed for and passed a Constitutional Amendment to limit Presidential terms after Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to 4 terms. They wanted to limit Presidential power, and the same is necessary for Congress. We now have government policy by re-election. If a policy supports re-election, Congressmen will support it and vote for it. Term limits are necessary to encourage our leaders to focus on serving the people, doing the right thing, rather than that which supports re-election or the wishes of special interests, who are funding continuous re-election. National term limits for Congress, Federal Courts, and the Supreme Court, would promote better governance and weigh more power toward the people.Lack of Recall20 states have Recall for state officials. 34 states have Recall for local officials. Our Republic’s responsiveness to the people would be enhanced by a National Recall Amendment – to remove members of Congress, the President, and Federal or Supreme Court Judges, allowing the people to play a bigger role in directing and approving of government.Low ApprovalIt is hard to imagine that Congress has a 14 percent average approval rating; our President – only 39 percent; our Supreme Court – only 51 Percent. No other organization could continue to operate with such low approval. The Incompetent actors would be removed.Suspension of Regular OrderCongress has suspended Regular Order – crafting laws behind closed doors; without expert public testimony, debate, public review, or even time for lawmakers to read the bills.Revolving DoorThere is a revolving door between government employment and business employment. This serves to further increase the influence of business in government. It must be stopped if the people truly want to own our Democratic Republic.

U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Solicitor General, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

“It is not the function of government

to keep the citizen from falling into error;

it is the function of the citizen

to keep the government from falling into error.

Issues To Fix

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Our Goal

Unite All Groups

Seeking Greater Justice & People’s Rights

Open Secrets, Politifact, Snopes, Fact Checker,

League Of Woman Voters, And Hundreds More…

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Many groups are working to preserve freedom in America, and improve the level of justice in our government. We can unite as many as possible to work together toward a common goal of improving our society. We can even help fund those that need assistance.

20 states have laws that allow the recall of elected state officials. 34 states have some form of recall for local elected officials. It makes sense that those who have the ability to elect officials, should also have the power to remove them for just cause.

Both of our main political parties have done a bad job balancing the budget. The last revenue surplus existed under Bill Clinton. Because our laws are based on our leaders winning the next election, increasing taxes to cover spending or decreasing spending to match taxes is not happening. Term limits and a balanced budget amendment are two possible solutions.

Politics stands alone among all disciplines, in choosing not to seek accurate information to guide it. Why has our government never created a reliable source of information on America’s issues, to educate our people and our leaders?

Companies are finding that when you pay very little, people have no loyalty and leave for better opportunities. Some companies have found the cost of hiring and training new people, exceeds the cost of paying people a reasonable wage to stay in their jobs.

Voter Suppression was once by pole tax, literacy tests, and intimidation. Now it is more subtle: purging people from voter lists; requiring people to have a street address, which might not exist on an Indian reservation; and moving the voting center out of town. Gerrymandering has existed since 1788 and is still alive.

Stops Continual Fund Raising From, And Allegiance To Special Interests

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15 states already have state congressional term limits. 46 states limit state Supreme Court terms, from 6 to 14 years. The lack of U.S. Congressional, Federal and U.S. Supreme Court term limits fosters dysfunction and corruption in government. Unlimited and lifetime terms has not proven to benefit American governance.

We have an Electoral College because America’s founders distrusted democracy. There was a fear of the tyranny of the majority. One way to stop that is with an Electoral College. In 2000 and in 2016 the candidate winning the popular vote, did not win the Presidency.

They Profit From Other People’s Trades, Manipulating The World’s Computerized Trading System

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HFTs are manipulating the world’s computerized trading system by employing extremely fast computers, located near the exchanges. Their speed advantage allows them to front run other people’s trades – jumping in front of a slower buyer, buying the intended equity, then resell it for a profit to the slower trader.

When big money flows into U.S. Congressional campaigns from health insurance companies, our elected officials protect them from competition. Many countries have proven that there are better solutions for Universal Healthcare than putting profit making insurance companies between a doctor and the patient. In reviews of the best healthcare systems in the world, France has come in as number 1. The U.S. is always way down on the list. What one country can do, another can do.

Good governance can not exist without truthful information at its base. If we allow our leaders to lie to us, we are accepting dishonest government as the basis of our society. Who would want this? Why do we accept this. We need to monitor the level of integrity of our leaders and remove those who can’t deal on the basis of truthfulness.

Every Person In America Came From Somewhere Else, Even Native American Indians

We Need To Decide How Many People Can Enter And For What Reason, Not Discriminate Based On Ignorance.

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America is a country of immigrants – all of us. Even Native American Indians came across the land bridge from Russia to Alaska. Our diversity has been our strength. Anthropological studies of DNA now show that mankind originated from Africa then mixed with Neanderthals in Europe and Denisovans in Asia and populated the earth. There is only one race of humans on this planet, and we are all part of it, even though we may look different or have different skin colors now.

We Have Penalties For Lying In Court, Lying To Congress, And Lying To The FBI

The Oath Of Office Could Contain A Promise To Be Truthful

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Why would we make it illegal to lie in the three cases above, but allow our Leaders to lie to the American people? Shouldn’t we want and expect our leaders to be of highest integrity — true statesmen and stateswomen? If we create repercussions for lying to the American people, it can only make our form of government stronger. It will make it harder for those lacking integrity to serve in government, but that too is a positive thing.

We must question the sanity of anyone not wanting to protect and clean up our world. Our very lives depend on this planet sustaining us and all the other species. There is really no choice but to protect this planet, in the best way we can.

When the Second Amendment was passed in 1791, the flintlock musket was the state of gun technology. Meriwether Lewis was nearly killed by a charging grizzly bear a decade later, during the Lewis and Clark expedition, because he forgot to reload his gun. It took some time to load and fire a flintlock. Now we have guns many times more deadly, that can fire rounds as fast as the trigger is pulled. In the future when laser or disintegrating weapons are created, will we allow all citizens to own the latest deadly weapon?

Was this the intent of the 2nd Amendment? We can allow for the ownership of guns, but shouldn’t it be more tightly controlled than owning a car? Car Ownership requires someone to pass tests, have insurance, be licensed, be competent, and sober. The death rate from guns in 2018 was – 14,709 people.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”